[Soot-list] Requiring main method for doing inter-procedural analysis Heros/Soot

[Guru Devanla]

Hi Zhoulai,

Thanks for the pointer I will check that out.

Regards
Guru


On Sat, Jan 11, 2014 at 1:14 PM, Zhoulai <zell08v at gmail.com> wrote:

> Hi,
>
> Have you read this
> http://www.bodden.de/2012/07/26/soot-custom-entry-points/  of Eric? It is
> not for Heros but should serve for your cases as well?
>
> Otherwise, I think that you can write an auxiliary function that invokes
> your customized entry point. In this way, to analyze this auxiliary
> function (which is named 'main' in a class dedicated for it) should have
> the similar effect as analyzing the original class with your entry point.
>
> To extend this functionality into Soot/Heros would should be useful for
> testing our analysis for libraries, but imho, I am not sure if it can serve
> for real-life applications as we are most of time concerned about the
> callgraph from 'main'.
>
> Zhoulai
> (web-site: http://zhoulaifu.com)
>
> On Sat, Jan 11, 2014 at 8:40 PM, Guru Devanla <gurudev.devanla at gmail.com>wrote:
>
>> Hello  Sooters,
>>
>> While doing inter-procedural analysis I see that the Heros/Soot api
>> always needs an 'main' function. While I do understand this helps build the
>> graph for the ensuing analysis, isn't there a way to start from different
>> points if a 'main' method is not available.  I am wondering if this is
>> somehow intractable and if any solutions exist.
>>
>> Any pointers to this would be great, since when I try to analyze very
>> many libraries I end up with an error.
>>
>> Also, if there are any suggestion I would love to extend this
>> functionality into Soot/Heros as it would immensely benefit me and hopeful
>> a lot others right away.
>>
>> Thanks
>> Guru
>>
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